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Robert L. Letsinger

Robert L. Letsinger publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis.

World rank
#3,523
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,637
of 358,040
Works
69
Citations
2k
Citations per work
29.0

What does Robert L. Letsinger research?

Molecular Biology: 40.8%Organic Chemistry: 23.9%Materials Chemistry: 7.0%Biomedical Engineering: 5.6%other fields: 22.7%41%top field
Molecular Biology40.8%Organic Chemistry23.9%Materials Chemistry7.0%Biomedical Engineering5.6%other fields22.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Molecular Biology41% of their works
  2. 2Organic Chemistry24% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials4% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert L. Letsinger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Self-Assembly, Biosensors, DNA nanotechnology, DNA Structure, G-Quadruplexes, Catalysis, Drug Discovery and Frustrated Lewis Pairs.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Self-Assembly142 topics
  2. Biosensors111 topic
  3. DNA nanotechnology111 topic
  4. DNA Structure81 topic
  5. G-Quadruplexes81 topic
  6. Catalysis62 topics
  7. Drug Discovery31 topic
  8. Frustrated Lewis Pairs31 topic
  9. Gold Nanoparticles31 topic
  10. Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation31 topic
  11. Nanostructures31 topic
  12. Peptide Synthesis31 topic
  13. Plasmonic Nanoparticles31 topic
  14. RNA Interference31 topic
  15. Surface31 topic
  16. siRNA Delivery31 topic
  17. Ribosome21 topic
  18. Translation21 topic

Where does Robert L. Letsinger work?

Robert L. Letsinger's main affiliation in the publication record is Northwestern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert L. Letsinger have?

Science Explorer counts 69 works and 2,004 citations for Robert L. Letsinger, ranking #3,523 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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